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Reality: get used to it.
Dec. 22nd, 2007 08:17 amAs a genre, I mean. Three shows that I was only sort of vaguely paying attention to had their finales in the last week and I find I have a little something to say about each of them.
First, the show no one watched, and for good reason: The Next Great American Band. It got lousy ratings—around a 1.7—and usually came in 5th place for its time slot, though that's a little unfair since the CW shows wrestling on Friday nights. But that was the problem with this show. American Idol premiered in the summer and then moved into the regular schedule for its second season. So You Think You Can Dance still airs in the summer. The Next Great American Band came on in the fall after baseball which meant a month gap between promos on SYTYCD and the premiere. And it was on a Friday night, when anyone who is actually watching TV is pretty much watching Sci-Fi. The show really couldn't recover from that. I'm surprised that Nigel & co got screwed so hard by Fox since they're making so much money for the network, but the show was kinda boring. I would zip through it on the TIVO and just watch the performances, which were often pretty good but in that specific way of "listen to that cover!" At least they had the bands also playing their own originals, but trying to find a hybrid between a classic battle of the bands and the Idol format completely didn't work. Never mind that many of the rock singers couldn't actually sing that well.
I Love New York 2, which I didn't watch almost at all this time, ended with Tiffany spurning the guy who would stand up to her for the one that completely wouldn't, which was unsurprising, but I'm sure she'll be bored with him in a few weeks. I don't know what guy #1 was thinking—if she could deal with an alpha male, she'd be with Flav. It was the total vh1 formula of drama after manufactured drama, which also gets pretty boring. I did see, speaking of manufactured drama, that Rock of Love is coming back, and I'm really not sure why. These shows, one season you can almost buy into them, but two or three and you're like, "perhaps this isn't the best way for you to find 'love', dude." At least Flav is pretty open that all he wants is sex.
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rubydebrazier and calloocallay and I were talking the other day about how often bisexual women end up marrying men, and that Tila Tequila show on MTV followed the trend, where she picked the sort of boring (from what I could see on the last episode) guy over the really hot butch lesbian firefighter. (That woman could rock a vest like nobody's business.)
Between all these chronicle of a death foretold endings and the disaster of the bachelor this year, I'm really wondering how long the dating show can really last, even in its parodic form on vh1. But I bet we'll find out before the WGA strike ends. Yay.
First, the show no one watched, and for good reason: The Next Great American Band. It got lousy ratings—around a 1.7—and usually came in 5th place for its time slot, though that's a little unfair since the CW shows wrestling on Friday nights. But that was the problem with this show. American Idol premiered in the summer and then moved into the regular schedule for its second season. So You Think You Can Dance still airs in the summer. The Next Great American Band came on in the fall after baseball which meant a month gap between promos on SYTYCD and the premiere. And it was on a Friday night, when anyone who is actually watching TV is pretty much watching Sci-Fi. The show really couldn't recover from that. I'm surprised that Nigel & co got screwed so hard by Fox since they're making so much money for the network, but the show was kinda boring. I would zip through it on the TIVO and just watch the performances, which were often pretty good but in that specific way of "listen to that cover!" At least they had the bands also playing their own originals, but trying to find a hybrid between a classic battle of the bands and the Idol format completely didn't work. Never mind that many of the rock singers couldn't actually sing that well.
I Love New York 2, which I didn't watch almost at all this time, ended with Tiffany spurning the guy who would stand up to her for the one that completely wouldn't, which was unsurprising, but I'm sure she'll be bored with him in a few weeks. I don't know what guy #1 was thinking—if she could deal with an alpha male, she'd be with Flav. It was the total vh1 formula of drama after manufactured drama, which also gets pretty boring. I did see, speaking of manufactured drama, that Rock of Love is coming back, and I'm really not sure why. These shows, one season you can almost buy into them, but two or three and you're like, "perhaps this isn't the best way for you to find 'love', dude." At least Flav is pretty open that all he wants is sex.
rubydebrazier and calloocallay and I were talking the other day about how often bisexual women end up marrying men, and that Tila Tequila show on MTV followed the trend, where she picked the sort of boring (from what I could see on the last episode) guy over the really hot butch lesbian firefighter. (That woman could rock a vest like nobody's business.)Between all these chronicle of a death foretold endings and the disaster of the bachelor this year, I'm really wondering how long the dating show can really last, even in its parodic form on vh1. But I bet we'll find out before the WGA strike ends. Yay.
